No. 12,060 in Russian
зэки
"Зэки" (plural) refers to prisoners or convicts in Russian.
In a sentence
Зэки рассказывали свои истории.
The inmates were sharing their stories.
Зэки is used here as a casual and colloquial reference to inmates, commonly used in conversational speech.
Молодёжь иногда употребляет слово 'зэки' в шутку.
Youth sometimes use the word 'zэки' as a joke.
In this sentence, 'зэки' is mentioned as a word that can be used in a humorous or ironic context by younger people.
В литературе зэки часто описываются как люди с трудной судьбой.
In literature, prisoners are often described as people with a difficult fate.
Here, 'зэки' refers to prisoners as a societal group and is used to highlight their portrayal in literature.
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